“One year ago today my son unfairly and tragically went to heaven. He died because the system had naturalized that sadistic misfits could abuse the power of military command.”, Matías’s father maintained in his post on the social network Facebook.
The 22-year-old second lieutenant from the Cordoba town of Holmberg He died in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes province, after having participated in an initiation party or an event also known as military baptism. Matías was found with almost no vital signs in his room at the Officers’ Casino late at night. According to the results of the last autopsy Chirino passed away from a picture of asphyxia due to bronchial aspiration gastric content. This fatal outcome occurred minutes after the young man was induced to participate in the ritual that consisted of drink alcoholic beverages and swim at night in a pool in winter.
Today, 365 days after the death of Matías Chirino, the pain continues intact. “His mother cannot bear the internal tearing she feels every morning when she wakes up. Her sister continues to nonsensely wait for me to stroke her hair again. And I continue to fight for other national officials (judges and court employees) to stop hitting the story of Matías and mocking our suffering”, continues the message.
On the first anniversary of the death of his son, Ezequiel Chirino, father of the victim, denounces that from the army “They try, I don’t know why, to minimize what happened...and thus prevent his departure from being a before and after regarding these unfortunate social events”,
One year after the case, nine Army soldiers are accused of manslaughter, although without pretrial detention. A few weeks ago, the second lieutenant’s family requested a change in the qualification accusations of manslaughter to aggravated intentional,
The defendants are: Andrés Luna (35), Rubén Darío Ruiz (34) and Hugo Reclus Martínez Tarraga (34); First Lieutenant Darío Emmanuel Martínez (32), Lieutenants Exequiel Emmanuel Aguilar (31) and Franco Damián Grupico (26); and second lieutenants Facundo Luis Acosta (26), Gerardo Sebastián Bautista (31) and Claudia Daniela Cayata (33).